"an
articulate musician with zest, spontaneity, technical assurance and a lovely sense
of line…a major talent."Helen
Wallace, BBC Music Magazine

Since
his critically acclaimed concerto debut at the age of ten, the award-winning English
'cellist Richard Harwood has performed concerti and chamber music in major
venues including London's Royal Albert Hall, all of the South Bank Centre venues,
Wigmore Hall, Musikverein (Vienna), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Alte Oper (Frankfurt),
Thomaskirche (Leipzig), Auditorium du Louvre (Paris) and Alice Tully Hall / Lincoln
Center (New York).

As
concerto soloist, Richard has collaborated with conductors such as Case Scaglione,
John Wilson, Okko Kamu, Marko Letonja, Douglas Bostock, En Shao, Shuntaro Sato
and Yehudi Menuhin, and with numerous orchestras including The Philharmonia, Royal
Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony, RTÉ National Symphony, RTÉ Concert, Auckland
Philharmonia and the Ural Philharmonic.

Richard's
discography includes a critically acclaimed debut disc for EMI Classics, recorded
with pianist Christoph Berner, and Composing Without The Picture, a 2013
solo album of concert works written by film composers, on Resonus. Richard's recording
of Christopher Gunning's Cello Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
was released in 2016. In addition, Richard can be seen and heard in Phil Grabsky's
2009 documentary In Search of Beethoven.

Richard
began his studies with Joan Dickson, before continuing with other eminent teachers
such as Steven Doane, David Waterman, Heinrich Schiff (University of Music and
Dramatic Art, Vienna) and Ralph Kirshbaum (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester).